It's everywhere, apparently. I'm not sensitive enough to chords to be able to hear things like this on my own (though it helps me a lot to know that a suspect progression can be tested by seeing if you can sing "What…
The father says: "I do believe in karma, and if you think for one minute that there would be anything karmically correct for you to have a well-behaved little girl, you're dreaming." Justin Townes Earle and Steve Ea…
The suddenly warm temperature on top of deep snow raised a lush fog. Last night, driving on a narrow road next to the lake, I said, "This is what death looks like in the movies. Driving into nothing." All the familiar l…
I followed my 2 sons into B-Side Records, which was full of shoppers. I counted 15, all men. When did music shopping become such a heavily male activity?
Literal video. UPDATE: I've removed the link, since the video's been taken down -- as has an earlier example of "literal video," which you've probably also seen. The earlier one used "Take On Me," …
The Economist asks: Other appetites... have been sated even to excess by modern business. Food far beyond the simple needs of stomachs, and sex (or at least images of it) far beyond the needs of reproduction, bombard the modern m…
He'd write an "event score" -- "printed on a small white card that he would mail to friends.... Mr. Brecht said that he did not care if any of his event scores were realized and that he did not think that there…
I read the opening lines of Calvin Trillin's op-ed -- written in June 2006, but featured on the NYT website this morning as an op-ed "classic": MY excitement at the news that Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat of Connect…
The Supreme Court declines to hear 2 cases about "victim impact" evidence in death sentencing, and 3 Justices protest: In the cases denied review on Monday, the evidence was composed of a 20-minute videotape in one cas…
Jimmy Carl Black, RIP . ADDED: The album cover above is "We're Only in It for the Money," one of my favorite records, which is full of great songs including one that I think is just as appropriate for election eve …
A mathematician discovers the secret of the opening chord in "Hard Day's Night" : Four years ago, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, [Jason] Brown decided to try and see if he coul…
I'll be watching this , since I have a problem with a prominent blog allowing commenters to comment in my name. I've asked the blogger to remove those comments and he has pointedly refused. (The blogger who denied my req…
He's a freshman, studying music: The Chili Peppers [created tension] in our song structures but all based on emotion and intuition as opposed to knowing the math and academics of it. Knowing the structure is really fun. He&#…
I got the list at the WaPo , where they are asking readers which nominee is most deserving, but I'm going to repeat that question, to get a special Althouse blog result. So answer here before you go there and see what the WaP…
From Out.com. I have no idea how gay these choices are, but they do seem pretty great. To create our list of the 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums of All Time, we polled more than 100 actors, comedians, musicians, writers, critics, pe…
Says Barack Obama: "That's an old 60s expression." Yeah, it is: ADDED: You can debate about what ya-yas are. (Everyone who's read the David Sedaris book "Naked" should know Greeks use it to refer to g…